Re: [matplotlib-devel] cannot use some fonts on pdf, ps, eps backends

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Jouni K. Seppänen [mailto:jk...@ik...]
> Sent: 6 Apr 2009 1:20 PM
> To: mat...@li...
> Subject: Re: [matplotlib-devel] cannot use some fonts on pdf, ps,eps
> backends
> 
> "Andrew Hawryluk" <HA...@no...> writes:
> 
> > When I use Arial Unicode MS within matplotlib, it cannot save to any
> > PostScript-based formats (pdf, eps, ps). Apparently, the font has no
> > glyph names:
> [...]
> >     glyph_name = font.get_glyph_name(gind)
> > RuntimeError: Face has no glyph names

 
> What version of Freetype do you have - does updating it help? The check
> for glyph names is just a call to a Freetype macro

I am using the most recent windows binary (0.98.5.2), so I'm guessing that my Freetype library came bundled inside it.
 
> Does it help if you set ps.fonttype and pdf.fonttype to 42 in
> matplotlibrc?

Yes, that works very well, thanks! However, it now embeds the entire font rather than a subset. This results in a PDF of 14.4 MB with this font. I ran it through ghostscript to get a PDF of 24.2 kB with subsetting, but I'm wondering if I can get subsetting of type 42 fonts directly from matplotlib?

Thanks again,

Andrew